"Elsewhere, vandals have smashed 12 military headstones at a cemetery in Wallsend on Tyneside. The Royal British Legion called the attack "heartless" and "disgusting"."- BBC Website, 5th June 2009

Yet another act of vandalism to military headstones. On the last anniversary of VE Day, all people who died during 1930s and 40s headstones were daubbed with Swastikas at a cemetary in the South of England, and a few years ago Worthing War Memorial had the same fate and messages such as "Good Ridance"

It seems that this sort of thing is becoming more and more commonplace, so what needs to be done about it?

A cohort selected for punishment by decimation was divided into groups of ten; each group drew lots (Sortition), and the soldier on whom the lot fell was executed by his nine comrades, often by stoning or clubbing. The remaining soldiers were given rations of barley instead of wheat and forced to sleep outside of the Roman encampment.

Because the punishment fell by lot, all soldiers in the selected cohort were eligible for execution, regardless of guilt and innocence or rank and distinction.

The leadership was usually executed independent of the 1 in 10 deaths of the rank and file.